Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-21
The Stone OF Destiny.

St. Louis Republicans Among the ap.
paratus used in the jubilee services at
Westminster abbey was. of course, the
coronation throne, whose seat is made OF
the Scone stone, otherwise known as the
Stone of Destiny and the Liza Fail. The
throne itself is made of rotten, worm
eaten wood, patched together here and
there, rickety. dozy and unstable. A
relic of the days of the Edwards, it seems
figure of the monarchy, for certainly it
will hardly survive many more corona
tons. The Scone stone has been let into
the seat. 1t is u rough, solid
rectangle Of granite. looking as common
place rs so much paving-etone
out of the street, and yet this bit of rock
has clustered about it more of tradition,
of prophecy and of poetry. than any
other article in the regalia of England,
or of any other modern kingdom. It was
originally Celtic fetish, one might say.
was derived. The legend says that the
race ras W whose % name ,' Fhe e soIdi"rS % " was ys
latinlzed into Miledh and Mllesius.
brought the stone with them from Es.
balm, and that it was part of the dowry of
their mother Scotia, the daughter of
Pharaoh. Upon it, in those dim times
of which we have only hints IN the an
nails, the king of Ireland were en-
throned. Pagan Druds, sorcerers from
afar, seers and Christian bishops joined
in blessing it and prophesying about it,
Its literature would ill large volume.
1t was the Caaba of the Ceit Wherever
this stone was kept there would the SOW
ereignty of Scottish men remain, there
"A l., Is, .;.,at
date when the stone was transferred to
Scotland, then but an Irish colony in
Albin, is unknown, but the story runs
that it was hidden during the seryle re-
bellion of Kinkat, and found and stolen
away into Albin, similar looking, but
naturally u very inferior stone being
substituted in its place by the thief, Colny
Delvn, who shortly afterwards died of a
dreadful Druidic disease brought on by
the anathemas OF the Irish Druids when
they discovered the theft and the altera-
ton. The magical properties of the Liza
Fail at once organized kingdom In
Albin, which endured, fostered and favor
ed by the Stone of Destiny, until Edward
Longshanks carried the relic of to West.
minister in the thirteenth century. Then
the Scottish kingdom gave way to an
archy just as the Irish had done, and the
Lila Fall has ever since been building up
Brtannia's empire on sea and land. Ii
would be waste OF time and space to
print excerpts from the old prophecies
which the Scone stone has vndcated,
but the following, which is said to be a
literal translation of a poem written by
st. Finnan OF Kilmeddan, Is interesting,
as it deals with the future:
In the hands Of the fair foreigners,
The bueeyed SaXons from over the sea,
Shall the stone OF coronations and power
lnger,
While the Gael shall be stranger In his own
house.
Six times the years of the battles of Con.
Full OF murders and the wailing of widows.
Full of ,desolation in the land and cold
With the foot OF the foreigner on the ne X of
the Gael.
But f tFpm Winl the six hundred take the hostages
And the. stone shall be shattered and the
The curse from the land shall be lifted and
taken,
And the Gael will come into his heritage.
This curious prophecy has appeared in
several Irish papers recently and is read
thus; Six times the years Of Cons battles
would be 500 less The nine hostages of
Niyl, wonld leave 591 years. Edward
took this stone from ScOne abbey IN A. ID.
1896, and, adding the years of the proph-
ecy, the stone should be broken and the
curse lifted in this year of grace, 1887.
Il is curious what an effect these
propecies have upon the irish peas.
antry, among whom Columbkile and
Ultan and the other CHRISTIAN seers are
studied as closely rs the Hebrews studied
the prophets. Several risings have oc-
CURED in Ireland to tit the prophecies,
eases where the prediction caused its own
fultlment. II would be remarkable
fact If st. FinnaD S forgotten verse should
inspire some believer to take the task
into his own hands. and, with a sledge-
hammer and conviction Of patriotic
duty, shaitcr the stone that has caused
SO much misery